John Williams from The New York Times tweets: "Rare day back in the office meant a rare day in the company of one of the all-time great book covers," with a snapshot of Mariana Cook's Economists (Yale University Press, 2020).

The Financial Times Magazine features Mariana Cook's newest book, Economists, in its latest issue.

Review of "Factum Fetishes" at Factum Arte in Madrid, Spain by Charles Saumarez Smith.

By Sasha Weiss

Mariana Cook’s portrait photography seems to corroborate the old myth of the camera as a soul-stealing machine. Her eye is warmly enveloping, yet also sharp and efficient—like an emotional pickpocket, she removes crucial human essences and stores them on film. One can only imagine the deft charm she must employ to get these photographs, which are marked by gestures and gazes and oddities that the viewer immediately knows to be characteristic of their subjects. In her many books of portraiture—among them, “Couples,” “Generations of Women,” “Mothers and Sons,” “Fathers and Daughters”—Cook presents images alongside text, distilled from interviews she conducts with the people in the photos. The interplay between the photographer’s vision of her subject and the subject’s account of herself produces a simultaneous sense of precision and of mystery: How much can we really see of a person? How much can they really see of themselves? Cook seeks, with a kind of patient force, to know as much as she can. READ MORE